...Sara Jones Sociology December 12, 2006 Abortion Abortion touches politics, but is not consumed by it. Abortion views, pro or con, generally consume the life of the individual holding them. Abortion as an issue of public debate is largely a twentieth-century phenomenon. But the debate began much earlier, not over abortion, but over how social issues would later be viewed. There is even argument over what the term abortion means. Abortion moved from a practice that occurred behind closed doors and only for a select portion of the population to a practice that virtually skyrocketed among the general populace, rich or poor. The pro-life side will contend that the term pro-choice is an altogether unfair designation. What their opponents really are, they will argue, is pro-abortion. On, the other hand, pro- choice proponents will likely argue the term pro-life is unfair, partisan description. Pro- choice advocates will argue that they are pro-life about the mother. Their opponents are “anti-choice” or “anti-reproductive rights.” Pro Life The ultimate pro-life goal is quite direct and very simple. Pro-lifers want an amended U.S. Constitution, to the Canadian Charter of Rights that will give equal protection law, to, to all living humans from the time their biologic life begins at conception. Pro-lifers have a goal and it is a Constitutional Amendment returning the right to make decisions about each individual state in the U...
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...1 Tawana Gant English 102 Professor Hennicke April 8, 2013 Open Adoption vs. Closed: A Narcissism Ride Imagine being blind and experiencing the following. You’re 7 years old and your parents have just been in a devastating car crash and right before your eyes you’re now an orphan. Suddenly within weeks, you’re with a family that is in no relation to you and you have brothers and sisters but you do not know where they are because they have been placed with another family. Now having no source of connection with them, you feel emptiness inside because of this tragic change that has happened around you and your family within a short time span. Personally speaking this would be incapacitating to be around a family that were no resemblance to me; who they were or where they came from, and having them make decisions about my life without having any benefaction of my choice. In what manner do the rights of others have to anyone’s information for medical records through a closed adoption process, halting any of the child’s connections? The steps of adoption is to give the child a better contingency at life, though to interfere and disconnect his or her life ties involving their bloodline and history would not be sufficient to their lives in anyway. In other words to have a closed adoption is like someone telling a child there is no way of acquainting with the birth family or simply there is no history to be told about his or her biological roots. Generally speaking...
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...Dominisha Johnson ENG 101 December 13, 2015 Miller-Motte College Abortions in todays’ society According to www.tfpstudentaction.org, since the legalization of abortions in 1973, over 56 million unborn babies have been killed. This is more than the entire population of Spain. That makes 155 babies per hour, or about 1 baby every 24 seconds. How can we remain indifferent to such immense human slaughter? I have a strong passion and love for children and feel it is unfair to take their life without giving them a chance. Abortions are also a form of murder which goes against the bible’s teachings. The Holy Bible makes references about how it is unacceptable and sinful to commit murder. For example, “Thou shalt not kill” (Exodus 20:13, King James Version), tells us that it is wrong to kill or abort a fetus even though the baby is not yet born he/she is still considered a living being. Jeremiah 1:5 tells us that God knows us before He forms us in the womb, which means regardless of how you may have became pregnant, God has a plan and purpose for you and that child before He placed he/she in your life. Another important verse to think about says, “Cursed be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person” (Deuteronomy 27:25, King James Version). I feel this verse is saying, when a woman choose to have an abortion she’s gaining an award of having to live her life without the child she was blessed with and in return she will be cursed in life because she shed innocent blood...
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...Electronic Markets Volume 11 (2): 97–106. www.electronicmarkets.org Downloaded By: [Schmelich, Volker] At: 12:59 16 March 2010 E-COMMERCE IN AUSTRAL-ASIA u t h o r s Simpson Poon (Spoon@hku.hk) is the Director of the Centre for E-Commerce and Internet Studies at Murdoch University in Australia and a Visiting Associate Professor at the School of Business, The University of Hong Kong. He has more than 10 years of experience researching and consulting in E-Business. He has published widely in both academic and professional journals. Patrick Y.K. Chau (Pchau@business.hku.hk) is Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Hong Kong. His research interests include issues related to IS/IT adoption and implementation, information...
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...Instead there are alternatives such as adoption and about 1.5 million families who are willing open to adopt a child and still end up with the same results. They are also many ways to prevent from getting pregnant that one could take and won’t have to deal with abortion. She also talks about the arguments against pro-life. She claims that adoption is not the same as abortion because statistics show that many women end up keeping their babies instead of giving it up. She also claims that statistics show that 88% of abortion occur during the first trimester which has less than 0.5% risks of complications. Also show that only 8% percent of abortions do not use any form of birth control. Also she states that teenagers who end up being a teen mom end up being a high school dropout, having health issues or end up being...
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...Highlights of IFRS Research By CYNTHIA BOLT-LEE, CPA and L. MURPHY SMITH, CPA, DBA NOVEMBER 2009 Conversion from U.S. GAAP to IFRS is a heavily discussed topic in the corporate world. Expected benefits of adoption include reporting consistency, enhanced global competition and improved financial reporting transparency. While many countries worldwide have already adopted IFRS, many other countries are closely examining its effects before adoption, not only from an economic perspective but also from a reporting quality position. COMPARING RESULTS Researchers Elaine Henry, Stephen Lin and Ya-Wen Yang evaluated the difference between financial results under U.S. GAAP compared to IFRS. Their results show that convergence between U.S. GAAP and IFRS is occurring. Using 2004 to 2006 reconciliation disclosures, the authors found that the calculated difference between shareholders’ equity under U.S. GAAP and under IFRS declined from 2004 to 2006. In addition, the difference between U.S. GAAP and IFRS reported net income during this period also declined but remained significantly different. Pensions and goodwill appeared to be the dominant reconciliation items. Reconciliation amounts varied by industry and country, raising questions about consistency between region and industry. Additionally, more than 70% of the companies examined in 2004 through 2006 had a higher return on equity under IFRS compared to U.S. GAAP. The 2007 SEC elimination of the IFRS-to-U.S. GAAP reconciliation...
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...Moving to the middle ground on globalization is difficult and will take time... But in order to achieve real progress, we must “break the ice” by taking the concerns of the critics seriously and responding with constructive action rather than just more talk.” In WEIGHING THE PROS AND CONS OF GLOBALIZATION this presentation, Weidenbaum makes five key recommendations: • Make the World Trade Organization More Transparent • Ease the transition of people hurt by globalization • Strengthen the International Labor Organization • Use the Internet to give consumers an educated voice on overseas production • Welcome voluntary business standards Murray Weidenbaum holds the Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professorship at Washington University in St. Louis, where he is also honorary chairman of the Weidenbaum Center on the Economy, Government, and Public Policy. Dr. Weidenbaum served as Assistant Secretary of Treasury for Economic Policy in the Nixon Administration and as President Reagan’s first Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers. 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20004-3027 www.wilsoncenter.org MURRAY WEIDENBAUM WEIGHING THE PROS AND CONS OF GLOBALIZATION Remarks by MURRAY WEIDENBAUM A Presentation to the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Washington, D.C. March 5, 2003 WOODROW WILSON INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR SCHOLARS LEE H. HAMILTON, DIRECTOR PROJECT ON AMERICA AND THE GLOBAL ECONOMY ...
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...Competition Policy Newsletter Standard‑setting from a competition law perspective by Ruben Schellingerhout (1) FeAtured ArtICle Competition rules to ensure that the benefits of standards materialise Competition regulators pay attention to standard setting because legally a standard constitutes an agreement between companies. However, the Com‑ mission has always taken the view that there are also clear benefits associated with standard‑setting. As early as 1992 the Commission outlined this gen‑ eral point. (2) In its 2001 Horizontal Guidelines it therefore provided guidance on when it considered standard setting to be unproblematic. Since the adoption of the 2001 standardisation Guidelines, a number of issues have come to the fore. It became increasingly clear that malpractic‑ es were occurring in the standard setting process which could lead to serious distortions of com‑ petition. (3) In response, the Commission revised the Guidelines in 2010 to provide more guid‑ ance to standards bodies on how they could de‑ sign their rules so as to avoid restrictive effects on competition. (4) This purpose of this article is to provide the full picture on standard‑setting. It starts by outlining why competition law is concerned at all by stand‑ ards. It then covers in more detail some of the is‑ sues that have arisen. The extended guidance in the revised Guidelines is then fleshed out in more de‑ tail. Finally, some thought is given to the future of standardisation. Standards have a positive...
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...The attached assignment is NOT a model answer but rather an indication of how one syndicate group approached the problem set for that semester. It was one of the better papers but ……… Please note that the Executive Summary portion received a fail as it did not concentrate on what the group had recommended – the alternatives and why which one was chosen. They did, however, develop some alternatives, discussed them and then decided which one should be selected within the main body of the paper. It is also worth noting that for a 2008 assignment; almost all of the references were from that year. There are NO textbooks listed. AFF92 260: Aust ralian Cap pital Mark kets Semester 2‐ 2 S 2008 MZM C ON ULT ING M M NSU G MRCB gula y Ca al B Reg atory apita Fu ing Alte ative und erna es Authors: Version 1.0 Date e Issued: 25/09/ /2008 Word Count: 5,000 (no ot including ta ables) MZM CONSULTING Paul Masulan ns, Alex Zaikin ne, David McG Ghee Monash Unive M ersity Level 3 Building H 900 Dandenon ng Rd. PO Box x 197 Caulfield East, Victoria 3145 Australia 25 Septem mber 2008 Re: Regulatory Capita al Funding Alternatives CB Board, Dear MRC Please find the attach hed report on n regulatory capital funding alternatives. ument has b been prepare for the C ed Chairman and Directors ...
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...Telemedicine: An Important Force in the Transformation of Healthcare 1. Introduction As we enter the new decade, healthcare for an aging population is a top-of-mind issue for government policy makers, business leaders and consumers alike. Healthcare costs have been steadily increasing, and a growing number of healthcare providers and patients worry that the recent budget crunches faced by healthcare providers will affect patient care in the years ahead. Healthcare providers are taking advantage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) stimulus funding to launch telehealth initiatives to face down some of healthcare’s most daunting challenges. According to the American Telemedicine Association: "Telemedicine is the use of medical information exchanged from one site to another via electronic communications to improve patients' health status. Closely associated with telemedicine is the term 'telehealth,' which is often used to encompass a broader definition of remote health care that does not always involve clinical services. Videoconferencing, transmission of still images, e-health including patient portals, remote monitoring of vital signs, continuing medical education and nursing call centers are all considered part of telemedicine and telehealth." Following decades of media attention focused on the potential for telemedicine to transform health care delivery, the technology has matured, as has the acceptance of its use among providers and payers. ...
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...first eight weeks of pregnancy. After week 24 abortions are only provided if serious health problems occur. The earlier the abortion takes place the easier, safer, and less expensive abortions tend to be. There are different methods to getting an abortion depending on how far along you are. Typically if you are anywhere after seven weeks surgical abortions would be the best procedure. Back in 1973 the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade case that all women have the right to have an abortion within the first six months also known as second trimester therefore is it legal to have an abortion. Prohibiting abortion would be violating the 9th and14th Amendment the Due Process Clause which includes a woman right to terminate her pregnancy. Some cons of debate against abortion because they believe that abortion will have a medical affect later on in ones’ life. Others think it can cause stress and psychological pain it’s serves as murder. There are plenty of families looking to adopt a child. Others believe once it is in the first trimester it is not consider murder because a fetus is...
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...Rebecca Ristau Shell Games I. Part One 1. Child labor laws under the Fair Labor Standards Act A. “You’ve seen the children working in our factory. In others, kids as young as six and seven work forty-hour weeks. Many of them are there to pay off debts owed by their parents to the owners. They can never pay these debts back completely, so this is nothing more than slavery. Nothing more.” (pg. 134). “If you bend down, you’ll be able to see the buckets underneath that catch them as they fall. When the buckets are full, those youngsters over there crawl underneath and drag them to the next station. He pointed to a small group of ragamuffins, each somewhere between ten to twelve-years-old. … I asked why they were dragging buckets and not at home helping with chores or in school, and Mr. Blanton just shrugged his shoulders.” (pg. 90-91). B. This act prohibits most employment of minors. Children under the age of eighteen cannot do certain dangerous jobs, and children under the age of sixteen cannot work during school hours. The first quote violates this act because children under a certain age cannot be employed to start with. Also children that can be hired can only work a specific number of hours a week. The second quote violates this act because children under the age of eighteen are not to work certain dangerous jobs, and working around machinery that can cut off fingers constitutes dangerous. Also children are not to work any hours that are during...
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...Development – Future or Failure of Software Development? Ruben Picek, Vjeran Strahonja University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Varaždin ruben.picek@foi.hr, vjeran.strahonja@foi.hr Abstract. This article discusses some issues of the software development paradigm called Model Driven Development (MDD). Its basic idea is to move software development to a higher level of abstraction by using models as primary artifacts, and to transform models into the source code, with the aid of tools. Currently, there are several approaches to the realization of MDD paradigm which should bring a lot of benefits. However there are still problems to be solved, which will be discussed here. The authors are also going to analyze developers pros and cons, and give their own opinion about today's open question: Will MDD become a failure in trying to deal with software crisis, like the idea of CASE tools in 80's or will it become the future of software development? Keywords. MDD, MDD approaches, Software Factories, Software Development 1. Model Driven Development Paradigm In the last few years, software development has been faced with many challenges. Requirements of new and/or existing systems are growing, systems are complex and it is hard to build them on time and on budget. As an answer to these challenges, a wide spectrum of new approaches occurred, varying from buzzwords to comprehensive methodologies. One of the most prominent paradigms is Model Driven Development (MDD). MDD represents...
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...Health Care Organizational Ethics Plan Amanda Paschal Ethics and Decision Making in Health Care June 6, 2016 Contents Introduction 3 Theoretical aspects of organizational policy 3 Ethical Decisions and Judgment 5 Informed Consent 6 Regulatory issues and policies of informed consent are addressed. 7 Finance issues 8 Patient care issues 9 Human resources issues 9 Legal issues 10 Regulatory issues 11 Protocols to address patient safety issues 12 Protocols to address patient access issues 14 Ethical responsibility for transparency in health care 15 End of life and quality of life issues 17 Alternatives in decision-making for health care administrators to resolve ethical dilemmas within the organization 19 Conclusion 20 References 22 Introduction Healthcare is the treatment of health related issues such as prevention, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Healthcare is provided by Doctors, nurses and other licensed healthcare professionals. Who work at an office or a facility which would be a healthcare organization. By definition “An organization, by its most basic definition, is an assembly of people working together to achieve common objectives through a division of labor, people form organizations because individuals have limited abilities. An organization provides a means of using individual strengths within a group to achieve more than can be accomplished by the aggregate efforts of group members working individually. Business organizations (in market economies)...
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...Thoughts on Economics Vol. 20, No. 02 Privatization in Bangladesh: Problems and Prospects Muhammad Ruhul Amin( Showkat Ara Khanam(( Abstract: Privatization has been advocated in the development literatures as the gateway of the growth and development of the countries all around the world. Despite the phenomenal expansion of privatization programs, the results differed from country to country. Some could achieve the desired goals and some failed enormously. However, the World Bank and the IMF continued their campaign of privatization for less developed countries (LDCs) including Bangladesh to stimulate their growth and development. Some LDCs have adopted privatization programs of their own volition. The central theme of this paper is to examine the implications of privatization for the overall development of Bangladesh. The paper raises a number of issues in this regard. The issues involve meaning, significance, approaches, strategies and effectiveness of privatization. While seeking solutions to these issues, the problems inherent in policy formulation and its implementation strategies have been clearly spelled out in the paper. The authors suggest that in order to make privatization efforts a success, an indigenously designed pragmatic policy needs to be undertaken. They warn that the policy prescriptions of external sources including donor agencies, pressure groups and political lobbyists should be handled with great care and caution. 1. Introduction ...
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